Rohn Strong > Rohn's Quotes

“You work to live, not live to work, like she’s doing.”
― Duffy Brown, Geared for the Grave

“How often is tittle tattle, as you call it, true! And I think if, as I say, they really examined the facts they would find that it was true nine times out of ten! That’s really just what makes people so annoyed about it.”
― Agatha Christie, A Christmas Tragedy: a Miss Marple Short Story

“But facts are facts, and if one is proved to be wrong, one must just be humble about it and start again.”
― Agatha Christie, A Christmas Tragedy: a Miss Marple Short Story

“Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined—sifted.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“Eddy dreamed of owning her own restaurant. It was a common belief that women like her, the descendant of slaves, had no right to dream.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Forbidden

“People often surprised you, especially the innocent-looking ones, she’d found.”
― B.J. Daniels, Hard Rustler

“We all have choices. Some are harder than others. What I’m hearing is that you feel trapped. Sounds like you’re the only one who can change that. Just make sure you don’t latch on to the first life raft that comes along. It wouldn’t be fair to anyone to find yourself trapped in some other way, now would it?”
― B.J. Daniels, Hard Rustler

“Their faces were damp and ruddy beneath their high-yellow skin, like they’d been crying but had exhausted that sorrow, left it to the baby to do the weeping for them.”
― Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

“You’re my happy place, and I know for sure that I love you, and that I want more. Like a lifetime of more.”
― R.J. Scott, Today

“Give me time to sort through the mess in my thoughts?" I hugged him, and I had to have the last word. "Of course.”
― R.J. Scott, Today

“That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“But if you rewrote the past, obviously, the present would change, too. What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 1